In July 2025, over 620 days after the onset of the Gaza genocide, the Zionist entity’s war minister Israel Katz announced plans to concentrate Gaza’s people in a “humanitarian city” –  a euphemism for a concentration camp – to be constructed on the ruins of the city of Rafah. The IGF (Israel Genocide Forces), he said, would initially “move”…

This was the preface I have written for  Race and the Question of Palestine (Lana Tatour and Ronit Lentin, eds. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025) but was prevented by my co editor from publishing as it was deemed ‘too risky’. “National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the…